My injury was hard on my family, but they got used to it ... Now I'm treated like a person who defended his land and was shot for it. Still, this wasn't my idea of a hero.

Name: ARAFAT JACOUB
Country: West Bank/Palestinian Territories
Born: 1973
Participated: Palestinian Uprising
Conflict: Intifada 1987-93

Arafat Jacoub (center) during basketball practice for the Sports Union Federation for Handicapped in Ramallah, the West Bank, 1995